Research topics

PhD supervision at the Instititute of Archaeology covers a broad range of topics, and staff welcome proposals from prospective students. For a list of subjects currently being pursued by students at the IoA, please see the research student pages. For a list of staff research areas, please see the research tag system and academic staff profiles.

Research Degrees Awarded

Below are details of previous MPhil/PhD topics organised by the year in which the degree was awarded:

Anastasia Sakellariadi: Archaeology for the people? Greek
Archaeology and its Public, if there is one: an Analysis of the
Sociopolitical and Economic Role of Archaeology in Greece from the
Foundation of the Modern Greek State (1830) to the Present

Jane
Sarre: Communities of memory: an analysis of the influence of
participation and trust on the visual culture of diversity in city
history galleries

Gareth Brereton: The social life of human remains: burial rites and the accummulation of capital during the transition from Neolithic to urban societies in the Near East

Joanne Cutler: Production systems & social dynamics: a cross-media approach to "Minoanisation" in the Southern Aegean in the Second Millennium BC

Sophy Downes: The aesthetics of Empire in Athens and Persia

Jonathan Eagles: The reign, culture and legacy of Stephen cel Mare, voivode of Moldova: a study of ethnosymbolism in the Romanian societies

Angus Graham: Ports and Harbours in Pharaonic Egypt: an investigation into their location, physical nature and the activities and people therein

Carolyn Graves-Brown: The ideological significance of flint in Dynastic Egypt

Elisabeth Pamberg: The socio-cultural context of the production, distribution and use of African red slip ware, AD 100 - 700

Susan Poole: Gender roles and relations in the Aegean Bronze Age interpreted from the gestures, postures and inter-relational placement depicted in the imagery of frescoes, glyptics and three-dimensional artefacts

Anna Razeto: Imperial structures and urban forms: a comparative study of capital cities in the Roman and Han Empires

Dorella Romanou: Co-residental group composition and the spatial design of residences: an investigation using the ethnographic and archaeological records

Jennifer Wexler: Copper and Bronze Age rock-cut tombs in Western Sicily: a Landscape approach